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And David said to God: “I have sinned exceedingly in doing this. I beg you take away the iniquity of your servant. For I have acted unwisely.” (1 Chronicles 21, 8)
And the Lord spoke to Gad, the seer of David, saying: (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
“Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus says the Lord: I give to you the option of three things. Choose the one that you will want, and I will do it to you.” (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
And when Gad had gone to David, he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Choose what you will want: (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
And David said to Gad: “There are difficulties pressing upon me from every side. But it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.” (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the Angel of the Lord, standing between heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand, turned toward Jerusalem. And both he and those greater by birth, being clothed in haircloth, fell prone upon the ground. (1 Chronicles 21, 16)
And David said to God: “Am I not the one who ordered that the people be numbered? It is I who sinned; it is I who did evil. This flock, what does it deserve? O Lord my God, I beg you to let your hand be turned against me and against the house of my father. But let not your people be struck down.” (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
Then the Angel of the Lord instructed Gad to tell David that he should ascend and build an altar to the Lord God on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21, 18)
Therefore, David ascended, in accord with the word of Gad, which he had spoken to him in the name of the Lord. (1 Chronicles 21, 19)
Then, as David was approaching Ornan, Ornan saw him, and he went out from the threshing floor to meet him. And he reverenced him prone on the ground. (1 Chronicles 21, 21)
And David said to him: “Give this place of your threshing floor to me, so that I may build an altar to the Lord upon it. And you shall accept from me as much money as it is worth, so that the plague may cease from the people.” (1 Chronicles 21, 22)
But Ornan said to David: “Take it, and may my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Moreover, I give the oxen also as a holocaust, and the plow for wood, and the wheat for a sacrifice. I will offer all freely.” (1 Chronicles 21, 23)
